Green Politics
Why continued unemployment is in the government’s interest
Scapegoating benefit claimants allows the government to deflect attention from its own economic failures, and to make more ideologically motivated cuts
work programme
Another Department for Work and Pensions failure?
More than two thirds of people on the government’s controversial Work Programme are still without a job after two years on the scheme, according to new figures.
The Work Programme: just 1 in 20 ESA claimants have found work through the scheme
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
3 questions Iain Duncan Smith must answer
We have three questions that we believe IDS ought to be asked by the committee.
Watch: “Lying, thieving, b******s”… Whistleblower reveals sick views of Work Programme contractors
Disabled and jobless people were referred to as "lying, thieving, bastards" by a major Work Programme contractor, the BBC's Panorama revealed last night.
Comment: Boris’s ‘workfare’ programme represents a shameful lack of care for young people
Even after the very public failings of the government's Work Programme, Boris Johnson is pushing forward with his own mandatory work experience scheme.